Verify a decision
Every moderation decision on AVOID.NET is anchored to the Solana blockchain. You don't have to trust us — you can verify cryptographically that we committed to a verdict at a specific moment and have not rewritten it.
How verification works
- We commit. When a moderator accepts/rejects a submission, we serialize the decision into deterministic UTF-8 bytes (
payload_canonical_string), hash it with SHA-256, encode the digest as base58, and write it to Solana inside an SPL Memo v2 transaction. - We store the bytes. The exact bytes we hashed are stored alongside the decision in our database. Anyone can read them and recompute the hash in any language.
- You compare three values. Database hash, your independently-recomputed hash, and the hash inside the on-chain memo. If all three match, the decision is authentic and timestamped.
The on-chain memo format is
AVOID.NET|v1|h:<b58-sha256>|d:<id>|t:<iso>Find a signature on any investigation page's decision log, or run python -m src.verify_decision --signature <sig> for a CLI check.
Decision
review · Binance
- Sequence
- #4
- Score
- 45 → 45 (0)
- Cluster
- mainnet-beta
- Slot
- 445505865
- Off-chain at
- 2026-09-09T03:05:06.874Z
- Anchored at
- —
- Block time
- —
Independent verification
- 1. Database (off-chain)
- GQTrR2YVhvvyocA9hQRebKfYC2RBVtJ6uLb2aWkTgAS1
- 2. Recomputed (your browser)
- computing…
- 3. On-chain (Solana memo)
- fetching…
Canonical bytes hashed (700 chars)
{"actor":"reviewer","artifact_identity":"56e14e291fff196e0e0c4e0e9721e719","decided_at":"2026-09-07T00:59:53.404093+00:00","decision":"review","findings_count":35,"findings_rows_hash":"ddce963da54f3110de90ceb93e8673006ac07d8c476f1796eaf600448c6754e3","investigation_id":"ee0b172d-1fd3-47c7-812a-115748f8108a","mode":"findings_only_retroactive","new_score":45,"page_content_hash":"4983bdeefca8007e872b028eaa6b1410860d75036e48ef9bedc386d68097f6e5","page_slug":"binance","prev_score":45,"reason":"Findings-only fact-check (retroactive anchor of stored findings)","score_delta":0,"sequence_num":4,"submission_content_hash":null,"submission_id":null,"submission_kind":null,"submission_valence":null,"v":1}